–everyone has a different “rock bottom” and it’s always interesting to find out what one’s is.
– people in the USA don’t know what poverty is, or how it is possible to survive it and be relatively happy, until they’ve visited parts of Africa.
– Zizek is right up to a point–there is a “system” in place that capitalises on anxiety and perpetuates it. If one grows up on television and takes the commercials to heart, one is never pretty/handsome enough, rich enough or poised enough to warrant self-satisfaction.
– many people are terrified because they associate a different meaning to reaching “rock bottom” than they ought to, when they encounter an absence of reified forms of consciousness.
– In Zimbabwe, since the majority of the population has hit “rock bottom”, they all pull together with a feeling of camaraderie and mirth (also a fair dosage of stoicism). But this concerns cultural differences, not just psychological differences between individuals.
– people in the USA don’t know what poverty is, or how it is possible to survive it and be relatively happy, until they’ve visited parts of Africa.
– Zizek is right up to a point–there is a “system” in place that capitalises on anxiety and perpetuates it. If one grows up on television and takes the commercials to heart, one is never pretty/handsome enough, rich enough or poised enough to warrant self-satisfaction.
– many people are terrified because they associate a different meaning to reaching “rock bottom” than they ought to, when they encounter an absence of reified forms of consciousness.
– In Zimbabwe, since the majority of the population has hit “rock bottom”, they all pull together with a feeling of camaraderie and mirth (also a fair dosage of stoicism). But this concerns cultural differences, not just psychological differences between individuals.
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